Paris (ESA) Apr 30, 2013 - Simply getting anything into space is tough, but doing so against a strict deadline can be really stressful. Researchers in an ESA laboratory nervously checked the clock as they extracted immune cel
Paris, France (SPX) Apr 29, 2013 - Stephane Israel, who became Arianespace's new Chairman and CEO this month, brings experience in aerospace business and government space policy to his top executive role at the world's leading launch
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 29, 2013 - A gauge on the Voyager home page tracks levels of two of the three key signs scientists believe will appear when the spacecraft leave our solar neighborhood and enter interstellar space. When
Washington (UPI) Apr 29, 2013 - Identical twin astronauts Mark and Scott Kelly are going to be part of an experiment in long term space travel to gauge the health effects of a mission to Mars.
Mojave CA (SPX) Apr 29, 2013 - Virgin Galactic has completed the first rocket-powered flight of its space vehicle, SpaceShipTwo (SS2). The test, conducted by teams from Scaled Composites (Scaled) and Virgin Galactic, officially m
Washington (AFP) April 29, 2013 - Virgin Galactic's passenger spaceplane, which is designed to take tourists to the edge of space, flew its first rocket-powered test flight Monday, breaking the sound barrier at high altitude.
Moscow (AFP) April 26, 2013 - An unmanned cargo vehicle on Friday successfully docked with the International Space Station, in a delicate manoeuvre after its navigation antenna failed to properly deploy following launch, Russian mission control and NASA said.
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 26, 2013 - The Russian military expects the first launch of a new Angara carrier rocket to take place in 2014 after the construction of a new launch complex at the Plesetsk space center is completed, Deputy De
Cleveland OH (SPX) Apr 26, 2013 - NASA's Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) test bed has begun its experiments after completing its checkout on the International Space Station. The SCaN test bed is an advanced, integra
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Apr 25, 2013 - The payload stack for Vega's second mission from French Guiana has been completed and is ready for installation on the lightweight launch vehicle at the Spaceport. This milestone completes t
San Francisco (AFP) April 25, 2013 - Google co-founder Sergey Brin on Thursday outlined a vision for the future in which self-driving cars whisk care-free friends to verdant parks that were once paved lots.
Cape Canaveral, Fla. (UPI) Apr 24, 2013 - Move over, Ellen.
Houston TX (SPX) Apr 23, 2013 - Inquiring research minds want to know...what resources are available on this orbiting laboratory we keep hearing about? Wonder no more, science community and space aficionados! The April 9 publicati
Boston MA (SPX) Apr 23, 2013 - When the space shuttle Atlantis touched down in the summer of 2011 at Cape Canaveral, closing the book on the U.S. shuttle program, a team of U.S. Army researchers stood at the ready, eager to get t
Paris (AFP) April 23, 2013 - Enigmatic traces of water in the upper atmosphere of Jupiter came from a comet that crashed into the giant planet in 1994, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Tuesday.
Houston TX (SPX) Apr 23, 2013 - Two members of the Expedition 35 crew wrapped up a 6-hour, 38 minute spacewalk at 4:41 p.m. EDT Friday to deploy and retrieve several science experiments on the exterior of the International Space S
